The diamond drill., 1887-03-19
WEST AND SOUTH.

The Grand Jury Investigations in Chi
cago are proceeding quietly.
The legislatures Of California and Mon
tana adjourned Saturday.
II is said that ex-C Congressman Morrison.
of Illinois, and Judge Cooley, OF Michigan,
will certainly be the western members of
tho Interstate Commission.
The strike among laborers a. Marquette,
Mich, has ended.
Mrs. Il. Salinger, at her home in Chicago,
took strychnine al o'clock Sunday after
noon, and her friend and neighbor Mrs.
Martin Walsh took paris greens at z
O'Clock, both suicidal intent and both
died.
Schwartz and Watts were indicted at
Morris, III, for the murder of Kellogg
Nichols, the Rock Island express messeger.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, tho anarchist lee
turer, has returned TO Chicago.
Jones Bros grain warehouse, at Win
chester, Ky, was burned Friday morning.
Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000
The Ryan block, at Aspen, CAL, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night, entail
ing a loss OF $4,000. Several persons had
narrow escapes.
About thirteen hundred bales of cotton
stored in Jacob Vorhels' cotton shed at
Memphis, Tenn, were burned Sunday
morning.
At Howell, Mich, fire occurred on the
18th, involving loss of $4,000, thought
20 be the work of an incendiary.
The steamer Yazoo Valley was burned
to the waters edge Tuesday afternoon
near Grand Ecore, on the Red River.
Three colored deck hands were drowned.
The warehouse Of the Des Moines Oil
tank Line, owned principally by w. r.
Stewart, was burned Friday night, con-
suming about fifty car-loads OF oil and
gasoline, with the cooper shop and build
ings. The loss is estimated at from $l5,-
600 to 100000; insurance $4,000.
fire at Hughesville, Mo-, destroyed
property TO the amount OF 100000.
Elmer Hammer was fatally crushed by
log Friday, at Newaygo, Mich.
Chas. Lynch was crushed by street
car, and John Jordan was stabbed by n
man named Dunno who was beating his
own mother, in Chicago, Thursday night.
The National Gas Company has been
Putting in new plant for the Minneapo-
lis Gaslight Company. Thursday after
noon while six men were walling up the
scrubber or metallic tank, 6xl2 feet, 10 ex-
ploded, and the top OF tho tank was thrown
through the roof, and in falling brought
down the roof with il. Earnest Metezeke
was killed. Thomas Thoman's skull was
fractured, and two other employees of the
gas works were considerably cut about tho
head.
Gibbs shingle mill near Edmore, Mich.
was shattered by the explosion of tho
boiler Wednesday morning. Two persons
were killed. one fatally injured, aud six
dangerously wounded.
A boiler explosion wrecked w. f.
Thompson's tub factory at Ithaca, Mich.
Tuesday afternoon. Two persons were
killed, and one fatally injured. Many
others were wounded, and, IA a number OF
people are missing, IL Is feared they arc
buried in the ruins.
A swiftly revolving hy-wheel, weighing
fofty-five tons, in the rail mill OF the
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company at
Chicago, few 90 pieces Tuesday, wound
ing Frank Elcnz, OF No. AZ Orchard street,
and James Ryan, of No. s26 North Paulina
street. employees. Elenz's Jaw was broken
and the heeh was torn from the chest and
abdomen, and at last accounts he was i'm n
dying condition. Ryan will survive his
injuries. Elerz died on Wednesday. The
actual damage 20 machinery and buildings
is estimated at from $4,000 20 $4,000.
Six weeks Of work, night and day, will be
required 90 make repairs.
A serious railway accident occurred near
virden, Il., on Friday night ON the Jack
sonvillo and Southeastern Railroad. by
which seven Illinois State legislators and
several others were badly bruised. Senator
Southworth, II Is feared fatally.
Henry Fluke, n farmer, of Concord,
Mich, died Friday, after taking medicine
manufactured by man who has been pre-
pairing and distributing medicines for
three years.
George HaIsey and his sister, OF Evans
tom. m, was struck by ira "A while cross
| ing the Chicago and Evsnston r. r., on